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"What a joke": Twitter reacts to Alex Pietrangelo suspension for slash on Leon Draisaitl - Edmonton Journal

Alex Pietrangelo #7 of the Las Vegas Golden Knights skates in the third period against the Edmonton Oilers in Game Four of the Second Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs on May 10, 2023 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Alex Pietrangelo #7 of the Las Vegas Golden Knights skates in the third period against the Edmonton Oilers in Game Four of the Second Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs on May 10, 2023 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Photo by Lawrence Scott /Getty Images

This just in, news that NHL Player Safety has suspended Las Vegas Golden Knights d-man Alex Pietrangelo for one game for his violent hacking of Edmonton Oilers ace Leon Draisaitl.

In its explanatory video, the NHL notes that Pietrangelo chopped down with his stick onto Draisaitl’s arm. “This is slashing. It is important to note that stick fouls on an opponent playing the puck are common and can usually be sufficiently penalized by the on-ice officials. In this case the puck has been gone for some time before Pietrangelo chooses to ignore the play, raise his stick, and deliver a slash to a vulnerable area of his opponent with sufficient force for supplemental discipline.”

The commentator added that Pietrangelo has neither been fined nor suspended before in his 952 game NHL career.

A two-game suspension would have represented a massive suspension in a playoff series, said Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman on Oilers Now.

The reaction on Twitter was as swift as it was harsh:

Hockey Youtuber Steve “Dangle” Glynn @Steve_Dangle
Pietrangelo and Nurse suspensions offset each other. Bad league. 🤷‍♂️

Writer Dom Luszczyszyn of The Athletic 📈 @domluszczyszyn
embarrassing, but what else is new!

Oilers fan McLovin97 @DJRoss_72
One??? A vicious slash. Intent to injure is the same punishment ad Nurse skating up to a player that wanted to fight? What a joke

ESPN hockey reporter Kristen Shilton @kristen_shilton
Alex Pietrangelo gets a one-game suspension for a two-handed slash on Leon Draisaitl
It’s something, I guess

Oilers fan and hockey coach Tyson Munro @Tys35
Absolutely pathetic

Oilers fan Paul Almeida @AzorcanGlobal
Total joke of a league.
Basically open season on stars in the playoffs. Chop away… Had he known he would get only one game Pietrangelo could have chopped McDavid on the same play in the corner as well.

Kevin Kurz @KKurzNHL, writer for The Athletic
Draisaitl’s fine, so one game is appropriate. If he was hurt then it’s more than a one-game suspension. But he isn’t, and that matters (as it should).
Still a dumb play by Pietrangelo tho

Harman Dayal @harmandayal2 Canucks & NHL reporter for TheAthletic NHL
Nurse instigator/one-game suspension should have been rescinded OR Pietrangelo should have gotten more than one game.
What Pietrangelo and Nurse did should not be punished equally

Oilers fan Goodfella @DhillonSteve
Way to grow the game you f*cking clowns.. And Bunting got 3.

Kyle Keefe @kylekeefetv Studio Anchor for the Colorado @Avalanche on AltitudeTV
Pietrangelo gets a 1 game suspension for slashing on the wrist.
Eberle didn’t even get a phone call for breaking Cogliano’s neck.
Let that simmer-

Oilers Now commentator Bob Stauffer @Bob_Stauffer
Only in the NHL would a two-handed slash on the best playoff player in the league over the last 2 seasons…merit the same suspension as a dubious instigator penalty given in a scrap between two willing and able combatants.
And NO one is surprised!

Spittin’ Chiclets podcaster Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6
This is an absolute joke. I was fine with 1 game if Nurse instigator was rescinded. The fact they have the same suspension is a disgrace

Oiler Alert @OilerAlert
Hacking someone’s wrist by using your stick as a weapon: 1 game suspension
Instigating a fight with a willing opponent : 1 game suspension and a $10K fine.

Senior NHL writer at ESPN Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski
I don’t think the NHL Dept. of Player Safety got this one right.
Alex Pietrangelo deserved at least 2 games for his slash on Leon Draisaitl. When intent is that clear — late in the 3rd, in a losing effort — and the target is the other team’s leading scorer? C’mon.

Oilers Now producer Brenden Escott @BrendenEscott
Eberle breaks Cogliano’s neck on a hit from behind. No suspension.
Nurse instigates a fight with a combatant he’s been talking for four games with. 1 game suspension.
Pietrangelo with a 12-6, over-the-head slash to a superstar’s wrists, away from the play. 1 game suspension.

Hockey commentator Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn
I know Nurse’s suspension was by the book but it’s kind of insane he gets the same punishment as Pietrangelo trying to chop a guy’s hands off 30 feet away from the puck

Oilers fan Den Polland @oilersgm2
I’m not sure the @NHL realizes the message they just sent. ANYONE can now take a liberty on a star player and only get one game. The Devils for example could send Lazar with an axe after Aho. Lazar will only get one game…Aho could be done for the series.

Oilers fan Brad Lauder @OILfanincowtown
This will do nothing to cool down the anger/animosity in this series, and could make it worse even… NHL had a chance to cool it down a bit, and didn’t this series could get ugly

Legendary Edmonton sports writer Terry Jones @byterryjones
Sorry. Pietreangelo one game. Nurse one game plus $10,000 fine for coach. That doesn’t balance on my scales of justice.

My take

1. When the brutal slash first happened I had two thoughts: first, one of relief when it became clear that Draisaitl was OK, that somehow no bone had been broken (the stick must have hit his solid elbow pad); second, that it’s little wonder Pietranglo had gone after some Oilers player, given the way the Oilers had tormented the Vegas d-men with at least five thundering body checks, one by Nick Bjugstad, one by Warren Foegele and three by Evander Kane, including one where Kane used his stick to propel Pietrangelo into the boards. I could understand the Vegas d-man’s anger.

2. Last night, after it became clear that Nurse was almost certainly going to be suspended for instigating a fight with Vegas d-man Nicolas Hague in the last minute of the same game, I reckoned the NHL would likely give both Nurse and Pietrangelo one-game suspensions. Why? Because with Nurse going out a game, it would be hard for the NHL to let off Pietrangelo completely, which I felt the league otherwise might have done, given its apparent favouritism of American teams, an opinion I base mainly on the bizarre pro-Anaheim officiating in the 2017 Oilers-Ducks series. Call me a conspiracy theorist but after watching that series, it’s hard to shake the notion that NHL reffing isn’t unbiased.

3. After reading commentary from around the league, including many writers outside of Edmonton, including in Las Vegas, expecting a much longer suspension for Pietrangelo, I started Pietrangelo hope he might get two games.

4. It could be that the bias I perceived in the Oilers-Ducks series wasn’t related to Anaheim being a favoured U.S. team, but due to the Ducks being full of veterans like Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, players who had earned the respect of NHL refs, while the young Oilers had yet to earn such respect. That is a real possibility.

5. What would have been a fair suspension for Pietrangelo? Given its the playoffs, where every game is far more precious, I think two games would have sufficed, but three games would have sent a strong message that the NHL does not tolerate intent to injury infractions.

6. If I’m completely honest, I think the Oilers have had as many favourable calls against Vegas as the other way around this series. I’ve seen iffy calls on both teams and I’ve seen both teams get away with things that should have been penalized. The Pietrangelo hit was penalized properly on-ice, but the NHL’s decision leaves me cold. Their number one job is to keep the players safe with the deterrence of a lengthy suspension for violent and illegal plays. They failed the players in that duty today.

7. Pietrangelo was thumped so hard by the Oilers in Game Four, it would not surprise me that he could really use a game off, then come back all the stronger in Game Six in Edmonton. In any case, Vegas will miss him, just as the Oilers will miss Darnell Nurse.

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